Games

The latest trailer for Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic adventure game The Last of Us is filled with drama and mysterious creatures. It’s looking more and more like The Walking Dead meets Uncharted.

While you could buy a desktop foosball table for less, you won’t look nearly as cool as when you play foosball with your iPad. Features realistic spinner controls and manual scorekeeping tallies.

(NSFW: Language) Cartman and pals provide just a little bit more insight into why humans and elves have been fighting for years in their RPG The Stick of Truth. And no, they’re not Druids.

The latest gameplay trailer for Bioshock Infinite shows the tweaked look of Elizabeth, as well as a fight sequence that showcases some of new hero Booker DeWitt’s weapons and powers.

An online mini-series by Micah & Christopher Moore, Mario Warfare sees the Mushroom Kingdom go head-to-head with the Koopa Kingdom in martial arts infused gun battles. Help fund it here.

Street Fighter x Mega Man takes the Blue Bomber back to his NES era, but with characters from the Street Fighter series. The game will be available for free on 12/17/12. (Thanks Seanrobot!)

The fourth game in the Gears of War series, Judgment takes us back to the time before the events of the original trilogy, inside the events immediately after Emergence Day. Out 3/2013.

YouTuber MegaSteakMan parodies the Dumb Ways to Die viral ad, appropriating it to show some of the most annoying ways of losing or dying in video games. What, no Blue Shell?!

Four of the most addictive, token-devouring shoot ‘em ups in one mobile package. Raiden Legacy includes Raiden, Raiden Fighter 1 & 2 and Raiden Fighters Jet. Available for both iOS and Android.

Brooklyn-based artist Henry Hargreaves has a stylish series of monochromatic photographs revealing the beauteous forms of classic childhood toys and games like Battleship and Rubik’s Cube.

(SPOILERS) A boss fight from upcoming slice-and-dice sim Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, featuring a cyborg chainsaw-wielding dog determined to kill Raiden and serve as an expository device.

This collector’s edition for Xbox 360 & PS3 includes all 5 episodes of the game on one disc, plus the first 48 issues of the comics. The disc can also be purchased separately for $30 (also for Mac & PC).

Ubisoft claims that Sam Fisher will have more than 90 non-lethal takedowns in Splinter Cell: Blacklist. This video shows a handful of those moves, which automatically adapt to the specific situation.

The full trailer for The Cave, a side-scroller adventure (and probably allegorical) game featuring unusual characters and a talking cave. Available 1/2013 for the PC, Xbox Live, PSN and Wii U.

Pay what you want for PC Steam copies of six of the beleaguered publisher-developer’s best current generation games plus soundtracks with the option to donate your payment to two worthy charities.

All five Assassin’s Creed games in one pricey set. It also includes a book, lithographs and all DLC for the games, plus a season pass for all future DLC of Assassin’s Creed 3. Only for EMEA territories.

A commercial for Sony’s crossover party fighting game PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, made by the stop motion clowns of Robot Chicken. This is the only time you’ll see Kratos scared.

The launch trailer for the free-to-play MMOFPS. Fight alongside and against thousands of other players in a persistent world with jetpacks, tanks, ships, tanks on top of ships and more.

Maxis creative director Ocean Quigley shows off more of the fun you’ll be having when the latest version of SimCity hits in March 2013. Didn’t you always wanted a city shaped like a guitar?